Kindred Quote by Felicia Hemans Download Open image “We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.” — Felicia Hemans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kindred Nature Sympathy
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally. — Greg Reitman Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Pine trees are not like human beings, they go for a long time without altering...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
Christ hath arisen! O mountain peaks, attest- Witness, resounding glen and torrent wave! The immortal courage in the human breast Sprung from that victory-tell how oft the brave To camp midst rock and cave, Nerved by those words, their struggling faith have borne, Planting the cross on high above the clouds of morn! — Felicia Hemans Copy Share
I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"? — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others… Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share
